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Lancome is Giving Away 10 Bottles of Génifique!
Lancome is Giving Away 10 bottles of Génifique their amazing new skincare product that is launching this month!
Read in Lancome’s official blog and find how you win Lancome Génifique! Talking Makeup has the recap:
“Our real subject today is Génifique, our newest and possibly most amazing skincare product ever. Génifique is all about getting a glow and boosting tone, texture and luminosity. It’s a very special product and we’ll be talking about it a lot over the next few weeks. But don’t take it from me. Check out this great post from SunHee Grinnell, the beauty director at Vanity Fair magazine. She said her “…overall complexion looked brighter, younger and healthier.” SunHee is already one of the most gorgeous creatures around (check out her blog portrait if you don’t believe me), so it’s almost impossible to imagine her looking even better.
Because we want everyone to get glowing for spring, we’re giving away 10 bottles of Génifique. Just reply to this post with some ideas for future posts or your thoughts about the blog and we’ll pick 10 of your names at random.”-Kerry Diamond for Lancome.
Hollywood Finish a Luxury Line of Shower Products by Celebrity Photographer John Russo
John Russo Celebrity Photographer Launches Hollywood Finish:Celebrity photographer John Russo launches Hollywood Finish, a luxury line of shower products; currently including shampoo, conditioner and shower gel. As the line is still growing with a variety of products, the creative use of organic colors, clean packaging and fresh scents such as “Soy and Olive”, “Capri” and John’s personal favorite, “Kumquat Sage”, truly captivate the products and their purpose for providing luminous sexy hair.
Celebrity Photographer John Russo.
Among the many beauty products that are available, Hollywood Finish raises the bar with its chic, high-end look, classy one-of-a-kind scents, and beautiful results that the product delivers. Having traveled the world and stayed at the most luxurious hotels, John Russo has seen and used only the best products out there; which sparked the interest to create his own.
With years of testing and experimenting an eclectic range of scents and ingredients, John has introduced Hollywood Finish for those seeking the stylish “Hollywood look”. Having impressive credentials as one of the top celebrity photographers of the world, John Russo is no stranger to the beautiful lifestyle of Hollywood’s glitz and glamour. With credits for shooting the covers of magazines such as VOGUE, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Glamour and GQ, celebrities such as Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Kristin Davis, and many others put their trust in his name and artistic abilities.
Smashbox Cosmetics-Mother Earth Palette & Smashbox Cosmetics The Muse Collection
Smashbox Cosmetics-Mother Earth Palette: A chic way to go green. Embrace Mother’s Day with a palette that benefits the planet while pampering you. The Mother Earth Palette from Smashbox Cosmetics was developed to be totally earth-friendly, from organic formulas to environmentally responsible packaging. Be beautiful inside and out!
The palette includes four eye shadows and a blush all made from certified organic ingredients is housed in a recyclable compact and carton made from sustainable materials and printed with eco-friendly ink. Like all Smashbox Cosmetics products, the formulas are paraben and fragrance free.
With each purchase, a tree will be planted by Trees for the Future, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating sustainable environments through reforestation throughout the world. Be sure to recycle the palette when you’re through! WHAT IT COSTS: $45.00. WHERE TO FIND IT: Exclusively at Sephora beginning April 2009.
Olay Professional Pro X Age Repair Day Lotion with SPF 30 & Olay Professional Pro X Wrinkle Smoothing Cream
I recently got to try Olay Professional Pro X Age Repair Day Lotion with SPF 30 & Olay Professional Pro X Wrinkle Smoothing Cream thanks to Total Beauty! I’ve been using these two creams everyday now for a month and I’m very impressed. These creams are all I need for my skin: they hydrate, protect my skin from the sun, firm, has no perfumes, and are affordable.
Read more reviews about Olay Professional Pro X Age Repair Day Lotion with SPF 30 & Olay Professional Pro X Wrinkle Smoothing Cream!
New Olay Professional Pro-X Age Repair Lotion with SPF 30 is a daily full-face UVB and UVA moisturizer that was designed by the Olay Professional Alliance for Skin Care Innovation, a group of renowned dermatologists and Olay Scientists, and was subject to rigorous development and clinical testing. Olay Professional Pro-X Age Repair Lotion with SPF 30 provides broad spectrum sun protection, moisturization and anti-aging benefits.
LACOSTE Love of Pink fragrance for Spring!
LACOSTE Love of Pink: Discover LACOSTE Love of Pink – created for young women with a passion for love and a sense of romantic vitality, the alluring new fragrance from LACOSTE encapsulates that delicious burst of excitement felt upon falling in love. Warm, romantic, delightfully feminine and energetic, this unique scent combines a blend of zesty ingredients, softened by a floral heart and a sensual woody, musky dry down. LACOSTE Love of Pink is a delightfully captivating fragrance – a girl’s irresistible companion towards discovering the wonderful feeling of love. An ideal gift for Valentine’s Day – or indeed for any celebration of love…
Avon Hairstyle Trend Report Spring 2009-Braids
Avon Hairstyle Trend Report Spring 2009 by Avon Global Stylist Advisors.
Hairstyle: Braids…This Season’s Accessory! Instantly give your style a girlie glam look with these playful, yet sophisticated braids.
How to create this look:
1. Create weightless texture with Advance Techniques Volumizing Mousse.
MAC Colour Ready
MAC Colour Ready will be available starting April 2nd, 2009 for a limited time.
MAC Colour Ready: Seeking alternative energy, increased mileage from makeup… Colour Ready revs up the Prep + Prime idea, a true hybrid formula between science and beauty.
New Transparent Finishing Powder and Line Filler are our lightest yet, in fact invisible when applied, but their silky colourless polymers set and stabilize makeup instantly. The only way to start when you sit down in front of the mirror. Prep + Prime Skin Refined Zone is your stay-put fit on skin that minimizes the appearance of pores without clogging, and visibly diminishes them over time. Two Lipsticks, Eye Shadows, Penultimate Eye Liner and Eye Brows in an essential palette are a habit to happily acquire – Colour Ready is as basic as your 4-inch heel Louboutins.
LIPSTICK
Show Orchid Vivid hot pink
Impassioned Amped up fuschsia
Suggested Retail Price $14.00 U.S./$16.50 CDN
MAC Sugarsweet
MAC Sugarsweet will be available starting March 19th, 2009 for a limited time.
Who cares if the Candy Man can…It’s the cupcake ingénue who’s caught the sweet spot this season.
Temptation is everywhere – luscious, whipped-cream decadent, deliciously decorative frosting colours and sugared almond combinations. Like peering through the window of a Parisian patisserie, you’ll want to become one of each! Have fun with a new Red Velvet recipe Shadestick. Tricolour Lipglass is like a mille feuille of layered lip gloss colours, each gives way to the next in a triple-layered pearl-swirl of prettiness; add extra-yum to Eye Shadow; Perfect Topping Mineralize Skinfinish is the ultimate cake walk. We could eat you up.
MAC Sugarsweet:
LIPSTICK
Bubbles Sheer frosty white beige
Saint Germain Clean pastel pink
Lollipop Loving Clean mid-tone coral and subtle green with gold iridescence
Sweet Thing Mid-tone magenta with multidimensional pearl
Touch Peachy cinnamon
Suggested Retail Price $14.00 U.S./$16.50 CDN
MAC Grand Duos
Introducing MAC Spring collection: MAC Grand Duos: Grand Duos splits MAC’s popular Mineralize Blushes in two: one side is marbleized with tri-colour veining to enhance and glorify cheekbones and the other, a complimentary mono shade to add a pop of colour. A soft, shimmery pearl on both sides gives skin a subtle glow. MAC Grand Duos will be available starting in March 12, 2009 for a limited time.
MAC Grand Duos: Mineralization has swept the Beauty Nation but MAC makes the next move with Grand
Duos: Mineralize Blush that has a marbleized mélange on one side, and a complementary mono-shade on the other.
Soft-shimmer super-shine pearl in a pretty tricolour veining to enhance and glorify cheekbones, followed with the pop and dimension of solid colour shimmer without an overly frosted look. The 188 Small Duo Fibre Face Brush makes the transition magnificent. A sophisticated but simple new way to get your vital minerals.
L’Wren Scott Backstage Beauty Report from Lancôme
New York Fashion Week Fall 2009 report:
The Look:
• Sexy chic
• 20’s/30’s
• Evening glamour in daylight
Products Used:
• Lancôme Le Crayon Khôl in Black Ebony
• Lancôme Ôscillation Mascara
• Lancôme Juicy Tubes in Pure (on the eyelid)
• Lancôme Color Fever Lipstick in Berry Sensual (Fall 2009)
• Lancôme Le Vernis in Rouge Bordeaux
• Lancôme Color Design Cream Blush in Freeze Frame
• Shu Uemura Matte Loose Face Powder Loose Face Powder
• YSL Touche Éclat
“Elegance is refusal.”-Diana Vreeland. This simple quote perfectly summed up the L’Wren Scott Fall 2009 show, for which Aaron De Mey, Lancôme’s artistic director for makeup, was the lead artist. Instead of hundreds of guests, a jammed backstage and models wearing layers of bright clothes and accessories, everything was calm-and as chic as could be. Only a few dozen guests were invited to attend the show, held at the all-white Gagosian Gallery in New York’s Chelsea art district. The atmosphere, and the clothes, were all about a sultry minimalism, sexy rather than spartan.
